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CRSF is a postgraduate conference designed to promote the research of speculative fictions including, but not limited to, science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Our aim is to showcase some of the latest developments in this dynamic and evolving field, by providing a platform for the presentation of current research by postgraduates. The conference will also encourage the discussion of this research and the construction of crucial networks with fellow researchers.

Watch this space for upcoming CRSF news.

Saturday, 13 May 2017

2017 Conference Schedule

CRSF
2017 is being held at the University of Liverpool on Friday 9th June, the planned schedule is as follows:

9:00-9:30:Registration and Refreshments

9:30-10:30:Keynote Lecture #1:
Dr Bernice Murphy,American Apocalypse: Plague Narratives, Popular Culture and White Anxiety in the Age of Donald Trump

10:30
-12:00:First
Round of Panels1.1:Body
and Power- Claudine Bollinger - Reading Bodies, Reading Minds: Enhanced Cognition in
Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice - Alex Parker - Slave-Mentality and the
Violence of Coercion in Octavia Butler’s Dawn and Adulthood Rites- Danielle
Girard - Fanning the Queer: Slash Spock1.2:Biopolitics- Emily Cox – More Machine than Woman? Bare Life and the ‘Naked’
Gynoid in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina- Meghann
Hillier-Broadley – “Part of its appeal lay
all too clearly in the fact that this was an environment built, not for man, but for man’s
absence”: Brutalistic atavism in J. G. Ballard’s High Rise.
-Sandra Mänty - Place and
Space for Animals in a magic-infused World - the case of Fantastic
Beasts and Where to find Them